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Yoden walked through the streets of Garmet, listening to the crowds of people quietly discussing the latest news from the political convention that was meeting in this otherwise quiet city in the far reaches of the Elendel Basin. The People’s Republic of Elendel was nearing its 25th year since its founding, but that did not mean everyone was happy with the way things were now. With the latest rebel attacks up north in Drypost and Mycondwel, tensions were high throughout the Republic. So, to quell tensions between the capital and some of the outer cities, a group of prominent politicians and influential figures had come all the way out here to Garmet to meet with their local leaders and try and figure out how they can improve things. I don’t think things are going well at all, Yoden thought to himself. For the past week, most of the meetings each day had involved the Elendel representatives mostly refusing to listen to the Garmet representatives’ pleas. And the Garmet representatives were far too angry for a governing body, that shouldn’t be happening in the Republic. Though to be fair, Yoden himself might be a bit biased, considering he was an Elendel representative himself. As he thought this, the crowd around him began to part around him as someone inevitably noticed who he was. He sighed to himself, then continued walking to the meeting building. Another day of constant bickering, all to make the Republic look better. ~ Some time later, a break was called. Yoden didn’t remember much of what happened, as it had been another four hours of bickering between people who really couldn’t understand the other side. There might’ve been some agreement that the rebels were causing trouble for everyone, but the people of Garmet almost seemed excited that Yoden and the other Elendel representatives had to worry about them. At least it’s time for lun- Yoden’s thoughts were interrupted as a tall man burst through the chamber doors, his coat torn up and his hair disheveled and incredibly dirty. “The rebels have taken Steinel!” He paused to catch his breath. “The tracks from Elmsdel to Steinel are also ruined. They overtook a train that left Elmsdel yesterday, and blew up the tracks as they went towards Steinel. We’re trapped.” The chamber room was instant chaos, people shouting that that couldn’t be true, others trying to ask the man what else he knew, and throughout it all, there was an underlying realization that this was planned. The rebels knew that all of these representatives from Elendel were gonna be here in Garmet for this month, and now none of them could get back to Elendel. Unless they wanted to take a 200 or more mile long journey walking from Garmet to Elendel. Eventually, someone managed to calm down the group of people within the chamber while Yoden was lost in thoughts. “Listen up everyone,” the man, Goren, said. He was a relatively young man for one so influential, and he was a Garmet native too. “We’re all stuck here, and we all know that the rebels wanted us stuck here. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure that means we’ve also got rebels in our midst.” There was a gasp in the crowd, and a tall woman began to shout, but Goren cut her off. “I’m not accusing anyone...yet. But it’s only common sense. The rebels needed to know that all of you visitors were still here in order to start their plan. Someone had to tell them that. So, I vote that we lock down the city. No one leaves or comes in until we figure out what’s going on, and until we get word from Elendel. All in favor?” There was a moment of silence as everyone took in his words. Slowly, people began to raise their hands in assent of his motion. Yoden was surprised to see even some people from Elendel raising their hands first. It wasn’t long before everyone begrudgingly raised their hands, even Yoden himself. Goren nodded. “Good, glad we’re in agreement. Now, I say we call the meeting off for today and we all go home and relax for a bit. It’s going to be a long while before we hear back from anyone.” Well, Yoden thought to himself, this trip certainly got more exciting. ~ Welcome to Long Game 77: A Political Trap! This game is a rerun of LG66 (which you can read here if you want). Helping me with this game is my co-GM @Young Bard and my IM @Elbereth I encourage everyone to RP as much as possible. It makes my job doing the writeups more interesting if you all do a lot of RP, not to mention that you get more boxings if you do RP. I’ll be posting the rules down below, in this post itself, but I’m not sure how well they’re going to translate in the transition from my google doc. Here is the link to the rules doc. Clarifications are going to stay in the doc itself because moving them to this post would be a pain. Signups will end on May 27, at 9 am CDT. The game will start as soon as we can get it going. Rollover will probably take 45 minutes to an hour after each turn as well. Also, for what it’s worth, I’m going to preemptively apologize because my work schedule is...variable, to put it lightly, so the rollover time will probably move around a few times over the course of the game as I find out my work schedule for each week. Hopefully I won't have to change it, but you never know. ~ Rules: Player List: Quick Links:

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With such little time left before what would be the end of the 24 hour cycle, we've decided that we will just go ahead and do the normal cycle length as only 2 people said they were fine with the 24 hour version. EDIT: Okay, make that 3, but still, there's only 10 minutes left, and it wouldn't be fair to change it on such short notice for the other three people.

@Random Bystander @|TJ| @Experience @Sart Are you guys okay with doing only a 24 hour cycle (meaning this cycle would end in about an hour)? Or do you wanna keep the cycle length as normal? EDIT: I didn’t ping Bip or Mat because they already agreed earlier in the thread.

And that's the cycle! No more posting or PMing until the next one is up...or whatever comes next.

With just about 9 minutes left, here's a reminder to get any last minute votes or actions in! @Illwei @Matrim's Dice @Random Bystander @Experience @Sart @|TJ| @Biplet @Quintessential Quinn (3): TJ, Sart, Biplet Biplet (2): Quinn, Illwei Experience (1): Mat

@Araris Valerian I should be at the top of the list since I am no longer busy (besides maybe for KKC, though I doubt El and wilson want to run that now), and I’ve been working on getting the LG66 rerun ready to go. I’ll probably have the signups up by the end of the week. @|TJ| And yeah, I sure hope the MR is done by then.

To add further clarification to DeTess’s point: the wincon for the elims was written the way it was so that the Agent would have a fair shot at winning. With the Agent no longer in play, the game will end once it becomes impossible for the village to win.

And that's the cycle! No more voting or PMing!

Okay, there's about 9 minutes left. Here's the votes: Experience (2): Illwei, Mat Szeth_Pancakes (2): TJ, Bip Random Bystander (1): Sart

Hey, just a reminder for everyone: there’s just under 12 hours left in this cycle. Make sure to get your votes and actions in! @Illwei @Matrim's Dice @Gears @Random Bystander @Experience @Sart @Szeth_Pancakes @|TJ| @Biplet @Quintessential

And that's the cycle! We'll get the next cycle posted and PMs sent out as soon as possible.

Okay, with about 20-ish minutes left, here's a VC to help you guys keep things straight: Szeth_Pancakes (3): Biplet, Devotary. Quinn Azmine_king (2): Illwei, Mat Devotary (1): Gears Illwei (1): Azmine_king TJ (1): Experience Random Bystander (1): Szeth_Pancakes also smh why do you guys hate ties so much, i love ties

With just one hour left in the cycle, here's another reminder to get your votes and actions in! @Illwei @Matrim's Dice @Gears @Random Bystander @Azmine_king @Devotary of Spontaneity @Experience @Sart @Szeth_Pancakes @|TJ| @Biplet @Quintessential Here's a VC: Szeth_Pancakes (3): TJ, Biplet, Devotary Azmine_king (2): Illwei, Mat Devotary (2): Quinn, Gears Illwei (1): Azmine_king TJ (1): Experience Random Bystander (1): Szeth_Pancakes

Birds do in fact disappear after a cycle. Unless the Aviar Holding Area is sabotaged, in which case if you received a bird going into the turn when it’s sabotaged, you would keep the bird for the rest of the game (or until the Aviar Holding Area is repaired)

With just about 18.5 hours left in the cycle, I'd like to remind everyone to get their votes and actions in! @Illwei @Matrim's Dice @Gears @Random Bystander @Azmine_king @Devotary of Spontaneity @Experience @Sart @Szeth_Pancakes @|TJ| @Biplet @Quintessential Also, here's a VC: Azmine_king (1): Illwei, Experience (1): Mat Random Bystander (1): Szeth_Pancakes Szeth_Pancakes (1): TJ Devotary (1): Quinn Please let me know if I missed anything!

No, as the dismissal is the first thing in the order of actions (which is at the bottom of the rules doc).

There's just 15 minutes left now! Here's a VC so I can make sure it's all correct right now because it'll probably change in 15 minutes and cause us trouble if it's not already right Tani (3): Tani, Experience, Biplet Matrim's Dice (2): TJ, Sart Azmine (2): Matrim's Dice, Quinn Illwei (1): Szeth_Pancakes Randby (1): lllwei

Here's a reminder that there is only just over an hour left in the cycle. Remember to get your votes and actions in! @Illwei @Matrim's Dice @Gears @Random Bystander @Azmine_king @Tani @Devotary of Spontaneity @Experience @Sart @Szeth_Pancakes @|TJ| @Biplet @Quintessential Here's a vote count as well: Tani (5): Illwei, Tani, Experience, Biplet, Quinn Illwei (1): Szeth_Pancakes Matrim's Dice (1): TJ

Okay, GM stepping in: just want to remind players that sharing notes docs/powerpoints/spreadsheets is not allowed, even if it’s just screenshots. It’s perfectly okay to take those notes, but not to share them. In addition I’d like to remind everyone that this is a game. Yes we all get frustrated, but sometimes you need to take a step back and relax. While no one likes being accused of being a liar, this game is about lying and manipulation. And sometimes things don’t go our way, and that’s okay. It happens to all of us sometimes.

Their role would show up as an engineer, then their alignment would show as the Agent. Also, a reminder for everyone that there are just under 1.5 hours left! Make sure to get your actions and votes in! EDIT: Just to be clear: this is not a confirmation that Quinn is indeed an Investigator. And neither is this statement a confirmation she isn’t an Investigator.

I feel like I should quote something from the rules to clarify something. The bold was added by me. I hope this helps clarify some confusion!

Just to clarify things for everyone, here's the Order of Actions: Dismissal Internal Affairs All other actions Repairs Improvement Attacks (Trapper/Saboteur) Requesting Birds Sabotage Navigator

In regards to the coded message: The code will stay up for now. In the future however, we recommend that no game-relevant content be put in code format, though preferably there should be no coded messages altogether. In addition, we request that any Messenger(s) do not use the key to the code to prove their identity, if they are gonna do a coded message at all.

I think the rule was specifically about in threads/PMs. I think there was an exception to anonymous messages, because half the fun of those is doing codes and stuff. But I might be wrong.